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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-06-10 09:08 AM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> so for the "old store" we have some machinery (using pkgme) to automatically
>> package submitted content like PDFs for Ubuntu.
>>
>> Do we plan to do something similar for the "new store"?
> 
> Not at all!
> I think if we do that, we've failed with click as a format, right?
> The idea is that it's easy that packaging wasn't really something to
> pay attention to. I also don't think we'll benefit from people
> throwing millions of random PDFs at the store to see what sticks, so
> we're better off letting people think a bit about what they want to
> ship, learn a little bit about the tools and submit it.

Just my 2c, but I completely agree with Martin here. Perhaps we need an ebook
store for this sort of thing?

Marc.